Marizeoliver - Kundaliní Power

by Toyin Ojih Odutola

Interviewer: If you didn’t paint, what do you think you’d be doing? 

Basquiat: Directing movies, I guess. I mean ideally, yeah. 

Interviewer: What kind of movies would you want to do? 

Basquiat: Ones in which black people are portrayed as being people of the human race. And not aliens and not all negative and not all thieves and drug dealers and the whole bit. Just real stories…

A Woman with a statue on her head, Otukp’icho village, Benue 1977. Vintage Nigeria

An excerpt from Legend Has It, prose by Enrique Garcia Naranjo

Photography by Maya Goded from the series, Tierra Negra (Black Earth)

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Nicholas Wilton